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Originally Posted by blankall
You can buy 1/10 of a pound of low quality ground beef at your local supermarket for much cheaper. So yes I could produce a tiny cheeseburger at home for less than $1.69. I could probably do it for under 50 cents.
If I was purchasing beef grown under illegal and unsafe conditions, I could probably do it even cheaper.
Do you really think the price of cigarettes is actually based on back end costs? It's been shown time and time again that cigarette smoking may actually save money to the health care system. Everyone dies of something. Dieing at the age of 70 vs. 90 saves the health care system massive amounts of money. Stroke and lung cancer (2 of the most common causes of smoking related deaths) are also extremely aggressive disease that kill you quickly. Much cheaper to die of a stroke or lung cancer at 70 than tax the system with prostate, liver, arthritis, etc.. issues through ages 70-90.
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I've never seen beef sold by 1/10 of a pound. I've seen it for about $5 a pound. If your burger is 1/10 then the patty alone is $0.50. The you have to consider 2 patties... $1. Then you have to consider a bun... $0.30. Then you also have to consider the time it takes you to make it, the cost of your house for that 20 minutes or so, the electricity you use, the vegitables and condiments you put on it... by that time you are well above $1.69.
And Yes, the tax on cigarettes was niknamed the "sin" tax. It is taxed heavily because of the back end health costs, as well as the simple fact that they are trying to discourage people from smoking. The government doesnt want people to die slow horrible cancerous deaths. They have made the taxes prohibitively high.
I dont think they would do that with marijuana if it is being consumed in food, drinks, or from vaporizers where, again, there are
zero proven health implications.
From that RAND study that Flash Walken posted:
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• The pretax retail price of marijuana will substantially decline, likely by more than 80 percent.
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